Media spotlight focuses on FAW Group

The reporting journey of "Jilin through the eyes of Overseas Chinese Media" made a stop in FAW Group, a Sate-owned automotive corporation, in Changchun, Jilin Province on May 25.

Members visited the assembly line of trucks and took pictures of employees hard at work.

Delegation of "Jilin through the eyes of Overseas Chinese media" visit FAW Group on May 25 in Changchun, Jilin province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Background

China FAW Group Corporation, commonly referred to as FAW owing to its original name of First Automotive Works, broke ground with its first factory on July 15, 1953.

FAW produced China's first Jiefang commercial truck in 1956, and in 1958, China's first Dongfeng car and first Hongqi luxury sedan rolled off the production line. Since then, FAW has been at the forefront of promoting China's automotive industry.

As a vehicle manufacturer with a 60-year history of innovation, FAW is a diversified maker of quality light, medium, and heavy-duty trucks, automobiles, municipal buses and luxury tourist coaches, custom bus chassis, and mini-vehicles with total sales in excess of 18 million vehicles worldwide.

Truck assembly line at FAW Group [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]